FINALISTS: 2015 Aurora Award

The finalists for the Aurora Award, celebrating the best in Canadian fiction (in both English and French), have been announced :

• Echopraxia by Peter Watts
• The Future Falls by Tanya Huff
• My Real Children by Joe Walton
• The Peripheral by William Gibson
• A Play of Shadow by Julie E. Czerneda

• Lockstep by Karl Schroeder
• Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf by Sherry Peters
• Out of This World by Charles de Lint
• Rain by Amanda Sun
• Twist of the Blade by Edward Willett
• Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong
• The Voices in Between by Charlene Challenger

• “Crimson Sky” by Eric Choi
• “Jelly and the D-Machine” by Suzanne Church,
• “Mecha-Jesus” by Derwin Mak
• “No Sweeter Art” by Tony Pi
• “Soul-Hungry” by Suzanne Church

• “A Hex, With Bees” by Tony Pi
• “Aversions” by Helen Marshall
• “The Machine” by David Clink
• “The New Ways” by Amal el-Mohtar
• “The Perfect Library” by David Clink

• Cassie & Tonk by Justin Currie and GMB Chomichuk
• It Never Rains by Kari Maaren
• Raygun Gothic Vol. 2 by GMB Chomichuk
• Treadwell by Dominic Bercier
• Trillium by Jeff Lemire

• Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction by Suzanne Church
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall
• Lackington’s speculative prose edited by Ranylt Richildis
• On Spec published by the Copper Pig Writers’ Society
• Strange Bedfellows edited by Hayden Trenholm

• James Beveridge, cover for Tantamount and Out Dweller
• Erik Mohr, cover for The Door in the Mountain and ChiZine Publications
• Derek Newman-Stille, cover for Elephants and Omnibuses
• Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and On Spec magazine
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk & Steve Fahnestalk, “Walking on the Moon”, cover for On Spec, No. 95 (Vol. 25 No. 4)

• Broken Toys edited by Taral Wayne
• Ecdysis edited by Jonathan Crowe
• Pubnites & Other Events edited by Yvonne Penney
• Space Cadet edited by R. Graeme Cameron
• Speculating Canada edited by Derek Newman-Stille

• Brooke Abbey, Weirdness from 2014, Bandcamp
• Copy Red Leader, Crossing the Streams CD, The Pond Studio
• Debs & Errol (Deborah Linden and Errol Elumir), OVFF Concert (Ohio Valley Filk Fest)
• Kari Maaren, YouTube Channel
• Stone Dragons, Dream of Flying CD, Stone Dragon Studios

• Sandra Kasturi, Chair, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Toronto
  Derek Künsken, Farrell McGovern, Caycee Price and Elizabeth Buchan-Kimmerly, Executive, Can*Con 2014, Ottawa
• Randy McCharles, Chair, When Words Collide, Calgary
• Matt Moore, Marie Bilodeau and Nicole Lavigne, Co-chairs, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Ottawa
• Alana Otis-Wood and Paul Roberts, Co-chairs, Ad Astra Convention, Toronto

• Richard Graeme Cameron, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine
• Steve Fahnestalk, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine
• Kevin B. Madison, Thunder Road Trip
• Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating, Canada on Trent Radio 92.7 FM
• Lloyd Penney, fan writing for fanzines and e-zines

The Aurora Awards will be presented at SFContario 6 and Canvention 35 in Toronto the weekend of November 20-22.

Congratulations to all the nominees!